Family 5K We survived our first virtual 5K as a family on Sunday, held in support of A’s school. It was actually really fun. I decided that a 1 minute run / 2 minute…
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Yesterday was an essentially perfect day, pandemic or not. I feel I must capture the events so that if I ever catch myself whining about how hard life is, I can remember that some…
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First of all — another giant thank you to the many who responded to Lily (and Lily, who responded back so thoroughly and kindly!) on Thursday’s post! You all are amazing and make writing…
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Another (mostly) solo parenting weekend. You might recall that the last time I faced ~40 hours of the kids on my own I was not feeling it. But I am going to try to…
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1- The less you look at social media, the less you want to look at it. I noticed this phenomenon with Facebook after quitting over 4 years ago. I had been spending time on…
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Well. G has her first URI since March. Super runny nose, pitiful-looking puffy eyes and face, low grade fever. I’m sure she got it from school. She actually told me specifically which playmate of…
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Josh is off this weekend (yay)! I am up early in part because the new iOS update messed up my phone and now I cannot set different Bedtime alarms. (To change the alarm time,…
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I wanted to share two of my favorite comments on Sunday’s post: “One thing I was wondering that might help you — you said you get frustrated because you’re trying to get them to…
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Days alone with my 3 children during pandemic times . . . well, I’m sort of over them. Saying this feels like admitting my failure as a mother, as a woman, maybe even as…
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I am dying to take the kids to a playground. They are dying to GO to a playground. Unfortunately, there are no playgrounds open yet. Interestingly, they are open one county to the north…